Standing Rock: Its Meaning by Courage the Activist What you’re witnessing in North Dakota right now are all seven bands of the Lakota together again after 150 years. You’re witnessing 12,000 people roughing -20° F nights to gather in prayer and exhaust more forms of non-violent direct action than I’ve ever seen a movement employ….

Veterans Reinforce Indigenous Frontline by Nio T. Dec. 4, 2016 marks the historic day US veterans stood up to rising fascism and police state terror. Veteran warriors from all walks of life joined in solidarity, kindness and love to combat oppression from Morton County ND Sheriff’s deputies and Energy Transfer Partner’s security forces. I came…

Contrary Part 2 (excerpts) by Sehu Kessa Saa Tabansi (AKA A. P. Pew) Eating three meals aday and still being hungry, Being a nation of obesity but still spending money, And laughing at white sitcoms when nothing’s really funny. Proud of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence in history while living off oppressed…

We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident by James Hansen and Sophie Kivlehan (excerpts from video transcript) http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2016/20161209_Transcript.pdf I’m Jim Hansen, director of Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions Program at Columbia Univ. Earth Institute, and this is my granddaughter, Sophie. I’m Sophie Kivlehan. I’m one of 21 young people who, along with my grandfather, filed…

Demagogue in Chief by Chris Hedges for Truthdig http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/demagogue-in-chief_20161211 Change Links graphic by Jeffrey Hirsch. (We only had room for excerpts in the print edition. Here’s the link to Hedges’s whole essay.)

Colombia: Peace in the Shadow of Genocide Colombia: Peace in the Shadow of Genocide by Dan Kovalik – December 14, 2016 A follow-up on our brief report last month on the No vote rejecting the Colombia peace accords between the government and the FARC guerrillas, which has now been revived in modified form by…